Strange unremoveable folder

[yyghp]

I got a strange folder:

drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 96 Oct 1 14:56 ewfewfwfwefwe

I can't remove it or check things inside:

# rm -R ewfewfwfwefwe
rm: ewfewfwfwefwe non-existent
# cd ewfewfwfwefwe
sh: ewfewfwfwefwe: not found.

What can i do now ?
Thanks!

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This may have some control-characters that are not visible. I would do something like this.

#mkdir junk
#ll -d *ewf*
(make sure this directory appears)
#mv *ewf* junk
#rm -rf junk

-Sri

[RAC_1]

ll -d *ewf*|vis

What it gives?

Anil

[Sundar_7]

# ls -ld *ewfe* | cat -v

I would guess you have some control characters prefixed/suffixed to the directoy name.

[yyghp]

Thanks Sridhar Bhaskarla !
Yours works !

Hi RAC, here's what i got:

# ll -d *ewf*|vis
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 96 Oct 1 14:56 oracle\b\b\b\b\b\bewfewfwfwefwe